Green Computing Awareness in India

What Is Green Computing?

• Green Use• Green Disposal• Green Design• Green Manufacturing

Need for Green Computing Why????? Computer energy is often wasteful Leaving the computer on when not in use

Printing is often wasteful How many of you print out your emails or meeting agendas

Pollution Due to manufacturing, packaging, disposal technique

Toxicity Due to toxic chemicals involved in the manufacturing.

Recent Trends In Green Computing Paradigm

Government initiatives have been enforced in the European Union, Japan and a few U.S. states.

Some states, like Texas, require tech companies to offer free recycling programs.

Companies like Yahoo! plan to become “carbon neutral” in the near future.

A Canadian company, Userful Inc. has come up with a solution of multi-sharing that turns 1 computer into 10.This reduces CO2 emissions by up to 15 tons per year per system and reduce electronic waste by up to 80%.

Companies including Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Inc., IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Xerox Corp. have started using less toxic material in products.

Prospective of Green Computing in India

India growing at 9% annually and expected to double its energy consumption by 2030, must act sooner than later .

Major companies in India are taking initiatives to appear greener and thus reducing their carbon footprint.

Wipro Info tech became the first Indian company to launch environment-friendly range of products named as Wipro Green Ware . Infosys framed an Eco club for its employees to reduce its carbon emission. Decided to plant one tree for every new employee.

Leading vendors like Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Acer are adopting green computing by rolling out energy efficient computers made from recyclable materials.

View sonic in partnership with a range of ISO 14001 certified recyclers offer customers several options and incentives to recycle used products

Survey Analysis

Survey parameters:

Awareness in Green Computing Major problems in Computing paradigm Steps for green awareness in field of education

and work-places Possible barriers

Faculty

Students

Work-place

0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5

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Awareness in Green Computing

Carbon Foot-print

High Power Consumption

E-Waste

0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5

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Major Problems in Computing Paradigm

Steps for Green awareness in field of education

Teaching/Learning

Setting up a planning committee

Using efficient power management applications/Tactics

Organizing awareness programs

0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5

VarianceModeMean

Steps for Green Awareness in Work-places

Adopting Green policies

Setting up a planning committee

Using efficient power management applications/Tactics

Business performance enhancement

0 1 2 3 4 5

VarianceModeMean

Barriers to Green Computing in field of education

Lack of Research

Lack of congenial infrastructure

Cost constraints

Lack of knowledge

0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5

VarianceModeMean

Barriers to Green Computing in Work-places

Lack of Research or Infrastructure

Over- dependence on foreign equipments

Financial Constraints

Lack of optimized supply chain management

0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5

VarianceModeMean

Conclusion• Based on the survey the steps that should be taken in

educational institutes and work-places are :Using efficient computer applications/ power

management tactics Optimum settings in the computer and monitor can bring down power

consumption contrastingly. Forming a green planning committee The committee will organize green awareness events .

ReferencesGreen Computing - a new Horizon of Energy Efficiency and Electronic waste minimization: a Global Perspective, Shalabh Agarwal and Asoke Nath (2011).

Green computing and D-Link, white paper February 2009

Nancy Weil, IDG News, The Realities of Green Computing, (http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/135509/the_realities_of_green_computing.html)

Green: The new color in Information Technology (www.slideshare.com)